People who made scientific contributions to evolution Flashcards
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Georges LeClerc
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Life forms are unchanging, noted similarities between humans and apes
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Georges Cuvier
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Credited paleontology, found that each layer of rock had a different group of fossils
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Charles Lyell
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Believed the earth’s surface has undergone and continues to undergo slow and steady changes. Proposed the idea of uniformitarianism
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August Weisman
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Cut off tails of mice for hundreds of generations, just to prove that acquired characteristics are not inherited
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Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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First to recognize the key role of the environment in evolution. Came up with the idea “line of descent”
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Charles Darwin
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On his voyage in Dec. 1831, he developed the theory of natural selection
